February 1, 2015

Cumberland junior Sean Laverty took home top honors in the 1,000 and 3,000 at Saturday's Northern Division championship meet. (Photo by Ernest A. Brown)

PROVIDENCE With senior Zen-ming Feng and junior Sean Laverty at the helm, Cumberland High coasted to yet another Northern Division Indoor Championships title with 209 points, an astonishing 162 more than runner-up Central Falls (47) at the Providence Career & Technical Academy field house on Saturday.

Feng captured the 55-meter and 300 dashes with respective times of 6.77 and 37.57, while stellar distance man Laverty claimed the 3,000 (9:06.12) and 1,000 (2:41.10).

Feng, however, tacked on another triumph as a member of the 4 x 200 relay, and also anchored the second-place 4 x 400 relay, which broke the meet record. Unfortunately for the Clippers, the Central Falls unit of Jailson Varela Sanches, Stive Mendes, Yuery Galva and Sam Adofo raced to the official mark with a superb clocking of 3:40.02, more than five ticks better than the one turned in last winter by Mount St. Charles.

The Mounties took third overall with 45 points, only two behind the Warriors. Lincoln mustered fourth with 31, and Woonsocket fifth just a point behind.

Still, of the 13 events contested, CHS veteran mentor Tom Kenwoods crew posted an amazing 10 victories.

Senior Jared Talbert also claimed two wins for the Clippers, reigning in the 55 hurdles (7.86) and the high jump (5-10), but Abdullah Kaba took the 1,500, David Agudelo the 600 and Andrew Walters the shot put.

Sheas Jerome Evans coasted to the victory in the long jump (20-0 ) and snatched a tie for third in the high jump; and Woonsockets Jared Briere easily snatched the 25-pound weight throw.

As for the 4 x 800 relay, the CF foursome of Sanches, Mendes, Adofo and Luis Martinez rolled to an easy triumph with a time of 8:50.78. That fell six seconds shy of Lincolns 2012 meet mark.

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Boys' Indoor Track | Clippers sail to Northern Division title